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		haolez on Oct 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the ... I think it was Debian with i386 packages. Compiling with Gentoo targeting my CPU and not a generic i386 machine made things much faster for such a crappy device.

eru on Oct 9, 2023 [–]

That makes sense.

It's just that for recent distributions, if you have a reasonably common and modern CPU, you already get most of the optimizations you need in the pre-compiled packages.

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